Pencil.



PATENTED JULY 14, 1908.

R. PROMBERGER.

PENCIL;

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 12,1907.

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ROBERT PROMBERGER, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

PENCIL.

Application filed November 12, 1907. Serial No. 401,887.

- I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to the following deaccompanying drawing, in

. view similar to Fig. 1 but with the pencil given a-turn of ninety degrees.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawing by the same reference characters.

In carrying out my invention I construct the pencil of two sections 1 and 2, one of these being formed of cedar or other more or less scarce and costly straight grained wood, and the other section, 2, being formed of a cheaper wood of any inferior grain and of any particular kind. The two sections 1 and 2 are joined together at their adjacent ends to form the complete pencil stock, preferably by providing the sectlon 1 with a saddle 3 in which the correspondingly formedchisel or tapered end ,4 of the section 2 fits, the two sections being ipermanently connected toether in any (esired way to form a rigid oint." The lead or crayon core 5, it is to be noted, lies entirely within the section 1 and terminates at its inner end at a point about midway of the length of the entire stock contiguous to the pointed end of the section 2. Manifestly, the section 1 may be made of two halves, as is common in pencil manufacture, for the purpose of accommodating the core 5. The section 2 may be either an integral structure or similarly formed of two mating halves.

Specification of Letters Patent.

handy and bein usually t which are not utilize Patented July 14, 1908.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanyin drawing, it will be seenthat I have rovi ed an improved.

construction of penci in which the lead me tends only about half the length of the entire stock, my invention being based upon the knowledge of the well known fact that ordinary pencils are rarely used when they have been cut down to about one-half their original length, the stub portion being unrown away. By forming a penci as above described, then, I effect, an economy as regards the consumer, who would be likely to get two of these what might be termed half pencils for the price of one ordinary pencil with the lead extending entirely therethrough and with the entire stock formed-of fine and straight grain wood, and the consumer would not, under such circumstances, pay for what is ordinarily unused, undesirable and unsightly and get the same use from a pencil constructed in accordance with m invention owing to the fact above noted t at the stubs are seldom used.

In addition'to effecting economies to the consumer my invention will also effect economy to the manufacturer, who would incur no appreciably greater expense for two pencils constructed in accordance with my invention than for one pencil of the ordinary character, as those ortions of the wood d as. pencil stock, could be used for forming the sections 2. As it is well known that the finer grained woods such as cedar, which is now almost universally used for the better class of pencils, are becoming scarcer, the supply wil be mainfestly conserved by my invention, as such Wood would go twice as far in the manufacture of the encil. This conservation of the supply is a so apparent from the fact that such finely grained woods can be used of shorter lengths than is now possible, thus enablin the manufacturer to use logs and parts 0' Wood that are not now available under the methods heretofore employed, owin to knots and other imperfections in the s ingles or logs from which the shingles are cut to form the pencil stocks.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, the herein described pencil constructed of two longitudinally alined sections, one of which is of straight rain .wood and the other of which is of re atively inferior grain, and a core mounted in the first named section.

2. As a new article of manufacture, the herein described pencil, constructed of two longitudinally alined sections, of which one is formedwith a saddle, and of-which the other is formed with a chisel end fitting in said saddle, one of said sections being composed of strai ht grain wood and the other of wood of re atively inferior grain, and a core mounted in the straight grain section.

3. As a new article of manufacture, the herein described pencil constructed in two longitudinally alined sections, one of which is of straight grain wood andthe other of relatively inferior grain, the section of strai ht grain wood being formed with a saddi, and the other with a chisel end fitting in said saddle, and a core in the straight grain section, the inner end of the core terminating close to the pointed end of the other section.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT PROMBERGER. [1,. s.]

Witnesses:

GEO. J. EMMINGER, WILBUR E. YOOUM. 

